Megapodagrionidae | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Odonata |
Suborder: | Zygoptera |
Superfamily: | Calopterygoidea |
Family: | Megapodagrionidae Calvert, 1913[1] |
The Megapodagrionidae are a family of damselflies,[2] commonly called flatwings for their habit of spreading out the hind wings horizontally when at rest.[3]
A 2013 phylogenetic analysis pares down this family into only three genera,[4] and numerous other genera are now placed in different families, including Amanipodagrionidae, Argiolestidae, Heteragrionidae, Hypolestidae, Lestoideidae, Mesagrionidae, Mesopodagrionidae, Philogeniidae, Philosinidae, Protolestidae, Rhipidolestidae, Tatocnemididae, and Thaumatoneuridae.